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TI U.S. apartheid and the spread of AIDS to the suburbs: a multi-city
analysis of the political economy of spatial epidemic threshold.
DT 9602
AU Wallace R; Wallace D; Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging
Research,; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
SO Soc Sci Med. 1995 Aug;41(3):333-45. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/96083020
AB We compare mechanisms of AIDS diffusion at the county level from five
U.S. central city epicenters into their associated metropolitan regions.
Four of the five show an expanding 'hollowed out' center of physically
and socially devastated, politically and economically abandoned high
density minority neighborhoods, surrounded by rings of relatively
affluent majority suburban populations. From these centers AIDS diffuses
into the suburbs as a single, spatially extended disease ecosystem. The
exception, San Francisco, has not yet experienced the 'hollowing out'
process and is, we conclude, a major AIDS epicenter markedly less
coupled to its suburbs because of that fact. This may constitute one of
the few empirical observations of spatial threshold in epidemiology. Our
empirical results contradict the conclusions of a recent National
Research Council report that AIDS will be largely confined within
marginalized urban populations. In reality U.S. urban apartheid,
particularly its continuing disruption of minority social structures,
has markedly accelerated the diffusion of AIDS into suburban
communities. A widespread program of reform, which rebuilds minority
physical and social community structures within both city and suburb, is
an essential, but largely unrecognized, component to any serious
strategy for the control of AIDS in the United States.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*TRANSMISSION
Cross-Sectional Studies Disease Outbreaks/*STATISTICS & NUMER DATA
Human Incidence Minority Groups/*STATISTICS & NUMER DATA *Politics
Population Density Poverty/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA *Race Relations
Risk Factors Socioeconomic Factors Suburban Population/*STATISTICS &
NUMER DATA United States/EPIDEMIOLOGY Urban Population/*STATISTICS &
NUMER DATA Urban Renewal JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).